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More Covid cases from Tachilek, some in Bangkok

Dr Sophon Iamsirithaworn, general communicable diseases director, announces new Covid-19 cases among illegal returnees from Tachilek at the Public Health Ministry in Nonthaburi province on Wednesday. (Screenshot from the Facebook page of the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration)

Six more Thai women who sneaked back home through natural passages from Myanmar’s Tachilek town to Chiang Rai province late last month had Covid-19 and some of them travelled Bangkok and some provinces, according to health authorities.

Dr Sophon Iamsirithaworn, general communicable diseases director at the Department of Disease Control, said on Wednesday that one of the cases was a 28-year-old native of Phayao province.

She worked at an entertainment place at 1G1 Hotel in Tachilek from Nov 1-26.

She returned with a Myanmar…

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